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Chorus of color
Chef Brian Quinn helps four valiant men make
a meal that will melt their women’s hearts
The “Celebration and Vision” exhibit at PSU
shows stunning African American art. Living, C1
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February 10, 2004
Portland 7
figure gets
7 years for
Taliban aid
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PORTLAND, OREGON
Blazers trade Wallace
The team picks up three Hawks for Wesley Person and the controversial forward
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Mike Hawash, a former Intel
engineer, tells a court he “felt the
tension grow towards my duty
in front of Allah” after Sept. 11
By NOELLE CROMBIE
THE OREGONIAN
Maher “Mike” Hawash told a federal
judge Monday that he was grief-stricken over his father’s death and increasingly devoted to his Islamic faith when
he decided to fight in Afghanistan for
the former Taliban government.
Hawash, a soft-spoken former Intel
engineer who became one of the more
unlikely defendants in the war on terrorism, said he
was staggered by
the Sept. 11 attacks and the
anti-Islam backlash they provoked.
“A suppressed
sense of fear, still
vivid in my
ABIGAIL MARBLE
heart, started to
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initial speculaOREGON LIVE
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began
pointing to MusYou can find the
statement of Maher
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in a statement
www.oregonlive.com submitted to the
/special/terror
court.
He began to
think he had a religious obligation to go
to Afghanistan. “I had all the reasons
not to go,” he wrote. “Yet I had felt the
tension grow towards my duty in front
of Allah.”
Hawash and brothers Ahmed
Ibrahim Bilal and Muhammad Ibrahim
Bilal were sentenced in U.S. District
Court in Portland on Monday, bringing
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Rasheed Wallace, traded to the Atlanta Hawks, is in the last year of a contract that pays him $17 million, and he becomes a free agent at the end of the season.
By JASON QUICK
THE OREGONIAN
The Rasheed Wallace era is over in Portland in what
team president Steve Patterson called a “watershed
day” for the Trail Blazers franchise.
The Trail Blazers controversial and talented forward was traded late Monday night along with guard
Wesley Person to the Atlanta Hawks for forward Shareef Abdur-Rahim, center Theo Ratliff and point
guard Dan Dickau.
The trade ends Wallace’s 71⁄2-year tenure in Port-
Please see SENTENCING, Page A7
T H E
Mad cow hunt
ends with some
cattle missing
land. He was the team’s leading scorer for the past four
seasons despite becoming the lightning rod for fan discontent because of his volatile and temperamental behavior.
He was a two-time All-Star for the Blazers, but his
play became overshadowed by his controversial personality, causing fans to routinely boo his introduction
at home games.
“The key is that we have been listening to what the
community, our sponsors, our season ticket holders
and organization needed as a whole,” Patterson said.
N E W
“We have been responding to that. We have been working to try put a team that we can all be very proud of.”
The Blazers received two former All-Stars in AbdurRahim and Ratliff, both of whom carry solid community service résumés.
Abdur-Rahim was named by The Sporting News as
one of sports “Good Guys,” and in 2001 he was awarded the NBA’s Community Assist Award after helping
raise funds for victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Ratliff sponsored a reading contest for metro-Atlanta
Please see TRADE, Page A8
B L A Z E R S
SHAREEF ABDUR-RAHIM
THEO RATLIFF
DAN DICKAU
Briefly: 6-9, 230 pounds, 27-year-old
forward, played in 2002 All-Star Game
Current statistics: 20 points and 9.3
rebounds per game
Contract: Two years remaining, at $13.5
million this season, $14.6 million next season
Briefly: 6-10, 230 pounds, 30-year-old centerforward led NBA in blocks in 2001 and 2003
Current statistics: League-leading 3.13 blocks
per game. Averaging 8.3 points, 7.1 rebounds
Contract: Two years remaining, at $10.1
million this season, $10.9 million next season
Briefly: 6-foot, 190 pounds, 25-year-old
guard from Vancouver
Current statistics: Averaging 2.1 points in
22 games
Contract: $696,000 in second year of threeyear rookie salary scale
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Spotty U.S. records make it
impossible to find all the cattle
linked to the diseased cow
Kerry may deliver knockout punch tonight
By ANDY DWORKIN
THE OREGONIAN
After searching through records of
75,000 cattle in seven weeks, the U.S.
government on Monday ended its investigation into Washington’s mad cow
case, having identified fewer than half
of the 80-plus animals it initially set out
to discover.
The decision means the government
can devote more resources to mad cow
prevention efforts, such as creating a
more extensive system to test for the
disease. But it also ends hope that the
nation will know the fate of all the animals that lived with the sick Holstein on
a Canadian farm before coming to the
United States, where they may still
graze today.
“We never expected to be able to find
all of them,” said Ron DeHaven, a top
U.S. Department of Agriculture veterinarian. “It’s remarkable that we found
the number that we did. . . . It’s time to
move on.”
Federal officials said any remaining
animals pose little risk because of regulations on processing cattle into food
for people or other animals. Some of
those rules started in December and
January in response to the mad cow
case.
The time and money it takes to hunt
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The Virginia and Tennessee
primaries could represent the last
stand for his Democratic rivals
By LIZ MARLANTES
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
RICHMOND, Va. — As Sen. John Kerry barrels toward the Democratic nomination, his opponents are facing what
could very well be their
last and best chance to
slow him down — and to
stay in the race.
Today’s primaries in Virginia and
Tennessee represent a key opportunity
for Kerry to show that he can win contests in every region of the country, including the South — the one area that
has eluded him so far.
The primaries will also test the
Analysis
◆ President: Jean-Bertrand
weeks ago seemed up for grabs.
Yet if Sen. John Edwards and Wesley
Clark are unable to post victories in Virginia and Tennessee, they will find it
difficult to continue much longer. Likewise, although former Vermont Gov.
Howard Dean has pinned his hopes on
the primary in Wisconsin next Tuesday,
he may already have been pushed out
of the race by the loss in Washington,
Please see DEMOCRATS, Page A7
Armed uprising in Haiti spreads
to more towns; 42 people killed
HAITI
◆ Population: 8.1 million
strength of his momentum against opponents who hail from neighboring
states and who have, until a few days
ago, outspent him significantly in Virginia.
Kerry’s dominance — over the weekend he added delegate-heavy Michigan
and Washington state plus Maine to his
list of wins — has come unusually early
for a multicandidate race, and it represents a sudden shift in a contest that
Port-dePaix
CapAristide, since 1990; faces
Haitien
Gonaives
political crisis stemming from
50
fraudulent legislative elections 0
St. Marc
MILES
◆ Ethnic groups: 95% African
descent; 5% mulatto and
Jeremie
Port-auwhite
Prince
◆ Main religions: Roman
Jacmel
Les
Catholic 80%, Protestant 16%;
Cayes
Caribbean Sea
roughly half the population
practices voodoo
◆ External debt: $1.2 billion
◆ Main exports: Coffee, mangoes,
(2000 est.)
sisal and essential oils
Source: CIA World Factbook,
◆ Average annual income: $480
United Nations, World Bank
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With no army and poorly armed police,
the state is ill-equipped to halt what it is
calling an attempted coup
By IAN JAMES
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAINT-MARC, Haiti — An armed uprising
spread to nearly a dozen towns in western and
northern Haiti on Monday, the strongest challenge
Please see MAD COW, Page A7
yet to President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. At least 42
people have been killed in what the government
says is an attempted coup.
After sporadic gunbattles, police regained control of the important port city of Saint-Marc, 45
miles west of Port-au-Prince. At least two men
were shot and another was shot and killed, allegedly by Aristide supporters. His body was left at
the side of the road.
An Aristide supporter was later shot and killed in
Please see HAITI, Page A9
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